List of Famous people who died at 87

Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history and European intellectual history.

Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Other transliterations of his surname include "Tychonoff", "Tychonov", "Tihonov", "Tichonov."

Albert Coppé was a Belgian and European politician and economist.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky was a prominent Russian mathematician who worked in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems, and the theory of differential games. He was the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

Joan Harrison was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar. She received two Academy Awards nominations for co-writing the screenplay for the films Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Rebecca (1940), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship.

Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook was an English film actor.